#0162 They Meet Again

Transcript:
“Panel 1:
Kendra: So you DO play!
Lisa: Yeah! I thought you didn’t though! Why did you say you were wearing that shirt ironically?
Panel 2:
Kendra: Well why did you ask me that in the first place? Why didn’t you just tell me that you play?
Panel 3:
Lisa: I….
Panel 4:
Kendra: Indeed.
Lisa: Sometimes it’s hard being a girl gamer.
Panel 5:
Lumberjack guy: Blah blah, it’s so hard being a girl gamer.
Goth guy: Yeah, guess who has an easier time getting a date.”

It’s a supply and demand thing. There are still many more boy-gamers than girl-gamers. Boy-gamers could get non-gamer girlfriends, but they’re pretty likely to be forced to “make the choice” at some point. It always seems to me that the girl-gamers that are remotely interesting are already taken 🙁

Bah. Silly boys. None of the guys I’ve ever dated has been a gamer, and my husband certainly wasn’t (and really isn’t other than very casual thanks to my influence). But then, I’m also a fitness freak, something most gamers seem to think is insane. 😉

Hey hey hey now….just because we prefer to sit down in front of the comforting glow of our monitors and do battle with the forces of the Alliance for nigh on six hours at a time does not mean that we are opposed to exerting ourselves in a physical manner….

Sometimes I run out of soda and I have to WALK to the refridgerator to get another two liter.

I think its more exceptable for men to be gamers then girls. If a girl meets a boy and he plays then its ok.. most of the time, but if a guy is not a gamer, and his girlfriend is, that might be weird. I can’t really imagine a guy waiting around for his gf to finish a raid xD ‘ah sorry, Katies running late coz she’s in ICC’ hahahaha.

It can be hard to be a girl gamer, people treat you differently. People seem to swoop on you if they know you’re single =( used to be flattering but now, not so.

WoW … or any online game … just isn’t a dating service of any variety. And WoW is where I meet the most strangers in anything like a social situation. A demographics survey

The odds of me encountering someone even in the right age/gender range are unlikely. And given my experiences when I really WAS encountering strangers of the appropriate range (school/college), finding someone compatible becomes something that requires scientific notation to measure.

Not to mention: The modern Romeo and Juliet – He was a human on Chromaggus, she a Tauren on Blackwater Raiders. More than just their guilds kept them apart…

I personally don’t think that the issue is that girls get treated worse in game. I believe it is that most players will assume it is a male playing and give them absolutely no special treatment that we would generally give girls in rl. At least, that is how i act ingame. So i guess a lot of girls are learning what it is like to be one of the guys. I am not saying that this is always the case, but we guys do give each other a lot of crap

I’m a female gamer and I can say this. Other females thinks your weird, they’re jealous at you because of unwanted attention. I’ve always had it very easy to talk to guys. Back in the days when I played quake, wc and cs, it was just natural to have a subject to talk about with the guys. But it also made me a freak.
Despite more and more females playing mmorpgs it’s still considered to be something awful for a woman to do. We’re supposed to be running the mall up and down, buying shoes all day long according to stereotypes. Which is what I don’t like, once or twice per year is enough.

Then we got the girls that play games on facebook, they’re the worst kind:
– Eww you play wow, loser
– You play farmville, not that big difference

Doublemorale much? They spend just as much time as me on just clicking around in a browser game >.<

But I really like this comic, brings a smile to my face whenever I see an update out 🙂

Tis only easier for girls because we don’t seem like wimps if we’re too shy to ask a guy out, it seems endearing or is expeceted from us. Whereas you poor guys have to keep trying and getting rejected until a girl decided to give you a slice of her time. I have always dated nice guys because I give everyone a chance, I hate the girls that complain about always getting with losers…date someone to is less of a Narssacist/good looking-douche then.

Hey people. Just an off-topic question. I don’t know anyone IRL who play WoW, and I’m more the kind of guy who play single-player games. I’ve started to play free MMOs only recently, to see how it plays like (I’m always curious about all types of games) and I’ve been wondering, (and no I don’t want to start a troll, I just want a straight answer), what make WoW so cool ? Because, it’s just another MMO, and you have to pay (a lot) to play it, when there is a lot of free MMOs around here. So I just want the opinion from people who like it : what make WoW so cool for you ?

I pretty much avoid speaking on vent at all costs and run with male avatars. Just part of being treated like a normal human, I suppose. Makes me shy to run with arena pickup teams, due to vent being a necessity. Certainly, breaking some stereotypes about girl gamers, and pvpers on top of it would be beneficial, but I’m usually too tired at the end of the day to want to wade through it.

…IT IS HARD BEING A GIRL GAMER!
Especially if you are parctically the only gamer full-stop taht doesnt just play war games.
I mean, no-one in my SCHOOL would take me seriously if they knew I play [I replaced game name with this to reduce social embarrasment], thats how anti-teen-female-gamist they are.